It will not be a big deal if the Conservative leader Søren Pape Poulsen becomes the country’s first homosexual prime minister – or at least not according to Nordic conditions.
Per-Kristian Foss was the first LGBT world leader when he briefly served as Norwegian Prime Minister in 2002, replacing Kjell Magne Bondevik during one of his depression attacks.
And then Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir became the world’s first permanent LGBT leader in 2009, when she became Prime Minister of Iceland.
Since then, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland and Serbia have had LGBT leaders, but never a country outside Europe.
Same trick as Schlüter?
No, the big thing will be that Poulsen joins, as it would make him the first conservative prime minister since Poul Schlüter, who resigned in 1993 after 11 years in office.
In the parliamentary elections in 1990, the Social Democrats received the most seats, but were not able to form a government without the support of the Radicals, which left the door open for Schlüter to continue his reign.
And experts believe that Poulsen will need the same kind of kindness from the center-left party if he is to follow in Schlüter’s footsteps.
With the popularity of the Danish People’s Party, the king-maker of the parliamentary election since the turn of the century, on the slide, the Radicals may be able to revel in supporting the blue bloc again.
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Søren’s odds cut down
It is true! The bookmakers notice Søren Pape Poulsen after his party’s star performance in the local elections, where the Conservatives improved their vote in 92 of the country’s 98 municipalities.
The total support for the party increased by 6.4 percentage points as the Conservatives increased its number of mayors from eight to 14.
Prior to the election, Poulsen was a distant third place in the bid to become prime minister after the next parliamentary election – after current prime minister Mette Frederiksen and Liberal colleague Jakob Ellemann-Jensen.
But now both have been extended to the extent that Frederiksen is 8/13 and both Ellemann-Jensen and Poulen are 7/2.
Støjberg odds on taking over in DF
And it is not the only Danish betting market that attracts interest, as the Swedish operator LeoVegas has a book about who will be the next leader of the Danish People’s Party.
Despite the fact that she had to be a member of the party for at least three months to be eligible for the end of the January competition, and her ongoing Supreme Court case, Inge Støjberg has an odds of 3/4 to succeed Kristian Thulesen Dahl.
Deputy leader Morten Messerchmidt and Peter Kofod are the next in the bet on 7/4, with former leader Pia Kjærsgaard on 19/5.
Source: The Nordic Page